New Wisdom Quotes

BARACK OBAMA :
-I'm asking you to believe.Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington...I'm asking you to believe in yours.
-Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause. Hope is what led me here today -- with a father from Kenya, a

mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have courage to remake the world as it should be. [January 3, 2008]
-Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
-We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
-You know, there's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit -- the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us -- the child who's hungry, the steelworker who's been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this -- when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers -- it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help.
-I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.
-If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
-Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
-Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
-I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.
-Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we're all in it together and everybody's got a shot at opportunity. Americans know this. We know that government can't solve all our problems - and we don't want it to. But we also know that there are some things we can't do on our own. We know that there are some things we do better together.
-My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that .
-Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming. Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of, you know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife, wow!
-What Washington needs is adult supervision.
-She was the cornerstone of our family and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength and humility. She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances. [with his sister, on the death of his grandmother Madelyn Dunham just before the November 2008 election]
-We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.
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JOE BIDEN:
-Hey, Bonita, I'm Joe. Not the plumber, Joe the Biden.
(Greeting woman called Bonita, on US presidential election campaign trail in Florida, October 2008.)
-If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me. Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are .
(Addressing National Guard, Baltimore, September 2008, about time his helicopter had to make a landing due to a sudden snowstorm.)
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HILLARY CLINTON :
-As we take the next steps in our journey, I know you'll be right there with me, as always, in my heart and by my side.
Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless America. (http://hillaryclinton.com)
-In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
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JOHN McCAIN:
-This foundation of our economy, the American worker, is strong but it has been put at risk by the greed and mismanagement of Wall Street and Washington.
(Blaming the greed of Wall Street and lack of federal oversight for the financial meltdown in US, September 2008.)
-The fundamentals of our economy are strong.
(On 'Black Monday', September 15, 2008, when there was a global stock market crash after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection and Merrill Lynch agreed to sell itself to Bank of America.)
-We're no longer staring into the abyss of defeat and we can now look ahead to the genuine prospect of success.
(During General David Petraeus’ testimony before Congress on the military “surge” strategy in Iraq. April 8, 2008.)
-We have enemies for whom no attack is too cruel.
(March 2008.)
-Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.
(Speech to Republican National Convention, August 2004.)
Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun.
('Faith of My Fathers' family memoir by John McCain and Mark Salter, November 1999.)
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GEORGE W. BUSH:
-This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.
-I can't wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and cutting those ribbons that somebody is creating new jobs.
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BILL GATES:
-Often you have to rely on intuition.
-Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
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